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Table 1 Review of the reported ocular problems in Congenital Protein C deficiency

From: Ophthalmic manifestations of congenital protein C deficiency: a case report and mini review

Report

Reported cases

Involved eye

Anterior segment involvement

Posterior segment involvement

Global involvement

Estelles A et al [1984] [6]

1

OU

 

Bilateral vitreous hemorrhage and intravitreal mass

 

Marciniak E et al. [1985] [7]

1

OU

Corneal opacity Case1: Corneal opacity, pupil not visible in one eye

Case2: Bilateral cataract,

Case 1: Vitreous opacity in one eye

Case 2: total retinal detachment with retinal new and old hemorrhages

Microphthalmia

Rappaport ES et al. [1987] [8]

1

OU

 

Hyperplastic vitreous bilaterally

 

Pulido JS [1987] [9]

1

OU

Prominent iris vessels, shallow anterior chamber, synechia, cataract, retrolental membrane

Bilateral vitreal hemorrhage, and funnel-shaped retinal detachment in both eyes

 

Auletta MJ and Headington JT [1988] [10]

1

OU

Raised intraocular pressure, flattened anterior chambers, iris atrophy, lens adhesions

Bilateral retinal detachment

Bilateral leukocoria

Hartman KR [1989] [11]

1

OU

 

Vitreal eye hemorrhages and

Intraparenchymal brain infarction

Hermsen VM et al [1990] [12]

1

OU

Vascularized lens, non-existent anterior chambers

Funnel-shaped retrolental mass, normal retina and optic nerve

Bilateral PHPV, microphthalmos

Soria JM et al. [1985] [13]

1

  

Persistence of primary vitreous

Microphthalmia, irregular globe

Cassels-Brown A et al. [1994] [14]

2

OU

Case 1: Posterior embryotoxon, shallow anterior chambers, ectropion uvea, posterior synechia

Case 2: marked periorbital edema and hemorrhagic conjunctival chemosis

Case 1: subconjunctival hemorrhage, a right sided retinal arterial occlusion and bilateral florid retinal hemorrhages with swollen hemorrhagic optic discs secondary to retinal venous occlusions, vitreous hemorrhages retinal detachment in one eye

Case 2: hazy media, minor bilateral vitreous hemorrhages, and minor right sided retinal hemorrhage

Case 1:

Strabismus, nystagmus, leukocoria

Case 2: early birth 25 wk., end up to death at 23 days of life because of some subarachnoid hemorrhage and with worsening lung function

Acheson JF et al. [1994] [15]

4

OD

 

Bilateral recurrent ischemic optic neuropathy

Association with Protein S deficiency, antithrombin III

Dreyfus M et al. [1995] [16]

9

OU

  

Unilateral or bilateral blindness 6/9 cases bilateral PHPV

Hattenbach LO et al. [1999] [5]

2

OU

Case 1. Shallow anterior chamber

Case 2. Shallow anterior chamber, posterior synechia

Case 1. Left retrolental opacities, funnel retinal detachment, vitreous hemorrhage

Case 2. Right vitreous hemorrhage, funnel retinal detachment

Case 1. Strabismus, microphthalmos

Case 2. Microphthalmos

Ergenekon E et al. [2000] [17]

1

OS

 

Eye ultrasound revealed an10x7 mm hyperechogenic structure underneath.

Retina of the left eye consistent with subretinal hemorrhage

Leukocoria

Churchill AJ et al. [2001] [18]

2

OU

Case2. Right leukocoria

Case 1. Bilateral central retinal vein occlusions, vitreous hemorrhage, and a right central retinal artery occlusion

Case 2. Total retinal detachment and a left macular hemorrhage

 

Paysse EA [2002] [19]

1

OU

Flat anterior chamber

Bilateral retinal detachment, fibrotic hyaloid arteries

 

Sirachainan N et al [2003] [20]

2

OU

  

Preserving eye function, high myopia, cerebral palsy

Park UC et al. [2005] [21]

1

OU

Bilateral corneal opacity, microphthalmia, posterior synechia, pupillary membrane, shallow anterior chamber

Vitreoretinopathy suggesting, PHPV, intravitreal masses, funnel-shaped retinal detachment with bilateral retinal dysplasia

Bilateral leukocoria, no microphthalmos, blind OU

de Lemus-Varela ML [2005) [22]

1

OU

 

Vitreous hemorrhage

 

Douglas AG et al. [2010] [23]

1

OU

No red reflex OU

Vitreoretinal dysplasia, severe hazy media in one eye and OU PFV

Leukocoria OS, bilateral microphthalmia,, deranged VEP, poor vision, nystagmus

Wang BZ [2012] [24]

1

OU

 

Macular hypoplasia with blond retinal background

Doll’s eye movements, no fix and follow movement of the eyes, ponto-cerebellar hypoplasia, nystagmus, strabismus, Flat ERG

Desai S et.al. [2014] [25]

1

OU

 

Combined central retinal venous and arterial obstruction

Severe Type II protein C deficiency with factor V Leiden mutation, Glaucoma

Almarzouki HS et al [2016] [26]

2

OU

Peter’s anomaly

  

Baothman AA et al. [2017] [27]

5

OU

Peter’s anomaly, corneal opacity (3/5)

Blindness (4/5OU), ocular hemorrhage shortly after birth resulted in visual loss (1/5)

 

Present study

1

OU

Left eye shallow anterior chamber, cataract, leukoma, posterior synechia

Dysplastic retina and total retinal detachment in the other eye

Flat ERG, fluorescent spots

  1. ERG Electroretinography, OD Right eye, OS Left eye, OU Both eyes, PHPV Persistent primary hyperplastic vitreous